For the third year in a row, hundreds of thousands of women across the country will turn out Saturday for their local Women’s March, ready to let the nation’s power brokers know the “resistance” is strong. But this time the event has been roiled by controversy after the national organization’s leadership struggled to deal with […]
Two Maryland women furloughed by the government shutdown have found a sweet and ingenious way to get by, channeling their frustrations into delectable desserts. Nikki Howard and her sister, Jaqi Wright, became known as the Furlough Cheesecake Sisters after they decided earlier this month to start selling homemade cheesecakes to help pay their bills during the shutdown, […]
A former staffer of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has filed a lawsuit accusing her of unlawful termination in retaliation for pursuing legal action over an alleged sexual assault by Damien Jones, a former employee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. In a lawsuit filed last week, the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, accuses […]
UPDATE: Chicago police said on Feb. 16 that their investigation into Jussie Smollett’s reported attack “shifted” after they received information from two individuals they questioned. Citing anonymous law enforcement sources, CNN reported that police believe the actor may have paid two men to orchestrate the attack. Read more here. PREVIOUSLY: “Empire” star Jussie Smollett took the […]
By Lesley Wroughton and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – The United States will suspend compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia on Saturday and formally withdraw in six months if Moscow does not end its alleged violation of the pact, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday. The United States […]
The way that America approaches Black History Month is grossly limiting. In many schools, organizations, workspaces and beyond, the month is distilled to the same whitewashed stories of select civil rights figures and a handful of picture-perfect moments in history. Our history and culture are consistently depicted as one-dimensional. Carter G. Woodson didn’t create Negro History […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hawaiian Airlines says a flight bound for Maui returned to the gate at Los Angeles International Airport three times for three separate problems before finally being canceled. Spokesman Alex Da Silva says Flight 33 took off and landed again twice on Saturday. A third time the jetliner pushed back from the […]
The secrecy of President Donald Trump’s tax returns will be the subject of a hearing next week, Democrats in the House of Representatives announced Thursday. Democrats have had the power to request Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service since they assumed control of the House this year, but they’ve hesitated. To build the […]
Cynthia Wilson does not work for the federal government. Nor do the other women who work in Wilson’s little eatery in Wichita, Kansas, the Parsnipity Cafe. But as the record-long government shutdown has demonstrated to a painful degree, Wilson and all her employees rely heavily on a federal workforce that shows up for work. Without […]
The partial shutdown of the federal government is now entering month two, and federal prisons are desperately trying to hang on amid a shortage of staff and resources, according to several reports. CNN spoke with prison employees and a union president who said the shutdown means workers are logging double shifts and are even asking maintenance […]